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Sentence Examples The star-shaped fortress is situated on an important promontory in the harbour. This promontory, overlooking the narrow neck joining the peninsula to the mainland, constituted a protected yet strategic location. The promontory, jammed with red-tiled roofs, was once an island, but had for centuries been joined to the mainland by a narrow causeway. In her stage direction, she has the set supposedly balanced on a promontory of earth so that you really see the mud. The rocky promontory at the top of the waterfall has long been regarded as one of the most romantic viewpoints in the mountains. Standing proudly on an isolated promontory, this 13th century stronghold once commanded the whole upper part of the Great Glen. Both ponds were divided from the lake by a low promontory of land that encircled them. The stones at Carnac weave strange spells on this wave-tossed promontory that juts so stubbornly into the Atlantic. Strategically situated on a rocky promontory with an adjacent natural harbor, it was called Cabo Corso, or short cape, by the Portuguese. The house sits on a rocky promontory at the southern tip of Kata beach, one of the best on the island. It was hard to tell which eagle-eyed member of the crew spotted the stranded paddler waving at us from a rocky promontory. The cavalry stopped just short of bow range from the rocky promontory, and the women prepared for a ground assault. I beached it in a small bay and clambered to a rocky promontory to admire the surrounding grandeur and check my progress. Survivors of the burning of Panama City in 1671 rebuilt a walled bastion on a rocky promontory to the west. They walked for a distance over the rough hillside and then came to a halt on a promontory which loomed out over the ravine. A coastal path climbs spectacularly over a rocky promontory and brings you to L' Estagnol, where you will find a sheltered sandy cove. Clearance of the obstruction showed that the tympanic membrane was compressed against the promontory. Breakfast could be eaten in the shade of the pines on the promontory while watching fishing boats putter across the waves. Less commonly, shoulder dystocia results from impaction of the posterior shoulder on the sacral promontory. On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump. Show More Sentences To the east lies the wild promontory of Portofino, whose southern coast is accessible only on foot or by sea. Gay Head, a promontory in Vinyard Sound, MA, U.S. and Portland Bill, a promontory in English Channel appear to support the results of this study. The coast line made a hairpin turn, and a jutting promontory of granite caught a small shingly beach against it. Once you gain the promontory of grandparenthood, these things last for only short whiles, not for 20 straight years like they used to. Every peak and promontory shall catch up the symphonious echoes. Was this a prehistoric promontory fort, as traces might indicate? At the east end is a small promontory fort, probably Iron Age. Tomas pointed out the promontory forts that are dotted around the area. Regardless of how you get there, it is worth making a trip to the island's capital, which is built on a promontory that projects dramatically out into the sea. These motions push the posterior shoulder over the sacral promontory, allowing it to fall into the hollow of the sacrum, and rotate the symphysis over the impacted shoulder. In 1897, an idea developed: to erect a Celtic cross on the large promontory known as Telegraph Hill. Leaning over an embrasure on Moon bastion, I could see the entire old town within the promontory ramparts. The Kirsehir-Nigde massif formed a promontory of this continental margin. At the far eastern end of Madeira, the promontory that is Ponta de São Lourenço is like a small piece of Africa. Point Clark Lighthouse NHSC is situated on a round promontory jutting out into the east shore of Lake Huron. The promontory itself was acquired by the government in the 1970s as a site for building oil rigs. This picturesque town occupies every available inch of a small, beautiful promontory at the foot of a huge cliff threatening, La Rocca. It was on this rocky promontory that Graf Siegfried built his castle, but of which little remains today. On the promontory of Skaros there was a monastery of Dominican nuns, under the patronage of St. Catherine of Siena. The stairs from the Lower Town and the steep hills allow us to climb up or down the thrust sheet forming the promontory of Quebec. Show More Sentences Its monumental scale forms an artificial promontory that offers continuity with the harbour-side landscape. The port of Grimsby is unique in England in that it is sited on a promontory, which separates the Humber Estuary from the North Sea. It's on the Cabo de Vela promontory, from where you have some striking views of the Cíes islands. Reminiscent of the protective function of a giant snail shell, the bright green copper roof nestles between the hills of the Gargano promontory. Have the president drive in the golden fence post at promontory Point II and sign the amnesty right there. The United States owned the entire promontory of Sandy Hook. The casemates of the Bock promontory and those of the Pétrusse valley form an impressive labyrinth of kilometres of underground passageways carved into the rock. To the east is the Point of Hellia on which is located the Broch of Gurness, an Iron Age promontory fort. They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah's father through an opening in the trees. Stranger still, when you reflect that Texas rivals California and Florida as a magnet for shipping. A promontory on Galveston Island offers a good feel of maritime Texas. They had dug a system of trenches and, on the promontory overlooking the river, had installed four Korean-made anti-aircraft guns pointing at the forest. The remains of one broch stand on a promontory at Invernaver, overlooking the mouth of the river. The first Municipality featuring an urban plan designed with small routes of communication is Vico Equense, on a rocky promontory with the sea a sheer drop below, which stretches from Scrajo to Punta Scutolo. Cascades of light and color tumbled down Fourvière Hill, transformed into three tableaus revealing the mystical and human history of this symbolic site, which turned into a promontory of light. In all these guises, the one constant is Mamet's crewcut, which dips like a tree line over the craggy promontory of his broad forehead and gives him an austere first appearance. The impact of pregnancy on the mesh is also unknown one concern would be the risk of a gravid uterus causing the mesh to avulse from the sacral promontory with subsequent recurrence of prolapse. When the early settlers built their homes on the promontory, they dug the foundations, reserving the excavated stone for use in building the walls. Any haemoperitoneum above the promontory is ignored for the moment. Marsala is perched on a small promontory overlooking the Mediterranean. Durham Cathedral occupies a strategic position on a promontory high above the River Wear. Show More Sentences Built atop a rocky promontory, the Fortifications of Quebec tower over the St. Lawrence River. Visitors can stroll along the 4.6-km-long walkway and enjoy the splendid views. We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory. We had topped the high country, too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory. This steepness was intensified on all sides by an artificial intrenchment which divided the promontory from the mainland. Raymond's force occupied an old promontory fort at Baginbun and plundered the surrounding countryside. Beyond the bay the underlying rocks emerge from the sand to form the promontory of Porthcawl Point. Oxwich Bay ends in the large wooded promontory of Oxwich Point, which leads west to the beach front villages of Horton and Port Eynon. The river then flows through Blantyre and Bothwell, where the ruined Bothwell Castle stands on a defensible promontory. Accordingly, Java Major, or Jave la Grande, was shown as a promontory of the undiscovered antarctic continent of Terra Australis. Two unnamed corries are cut into the eastern face and between them a flat topped promontory juts out with the highest point on its northern edge. The promontory of Monte Gargano, on the east, is completely isolated, and so are the Campanian volcanic arc near Naples. The ruins lie upon a promontory, bare and unmystified by the gloom of surrounding groves. The house is imperiously built on a promontory, a vestige of the defensive construction it once was as part of the former moats currently bears witness. Here is the famous promontory of Capo d'Orso, a large granite rock sculpted by the wind from the particular shape, just like a bear watching the sea. At Portavadie, a remote promontory at the mouth of Loch Fyne, a £45m glass-fronted marina and leisure development is being built by the Bulloch family, a Scottish whisky dynasty. It can be found in the western edge of the municipal historical reservation, which is located on the arenaceous promontory, surrounded from three parts by the Metuje River. Potter and Hunt, 29, crashed late on Saturday after leaping from a promontory called Taft Point, 3,000ft above the valley floor, park ranger Scott Gediman said. St David established his monastery on a promontory on the western sea. A dolphin rescued the poet Arion from drowning and carried him safe to land, at Cape Matapan, a promontory forming the southernmost point of the Peloponnesus. On the East side Kingswear Castle sits very close to the water's edge, and on the west side Dartmouth Castle is built on a rocky promontory at sea level. Show More Sentences It was chosen as the capital because of its proximity to the sea, and the promontory on which an important military settlement had been since the time of the Phoenicians. Edging round the west shore past a rowan-decked promontory, we found the long finger of Oban Haka pointing to the ruins of a building marked on the map as shieling. There is a 2nd or 3rd millennium BC chambered cairn, an Iron Age promontory fort and the remains of other prehistoric settlement dating from the Bronze Age nearby. Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage. To the north of the present High Street an area of open ground called Castle Park preserves almost exactly the hidden perimeter of an iron age promontory fort. Examples from Classical Literature The castle bars the access to the promontory, upon which stands the cathedral. Beyond this first promontory is seen a considerably higher range, but not an imposing one, which rises above the village of fado. We are bound to-day for the Punta della campanella, the extreme point of the promontory, and ten miles away. We dined this day at Terracina, heretofore the famous Anxur, which stands upon a very eminent promontory, the circean by name. Triopium is the promontory terminating the peninsula of Cnidus, the south-west headland of Asia Minor. The outer half of the first whorl of the cochlea is formed by the promontory. This promontory seemed to serve as an appendix for the draff of the neighborhood's rubbish. On July 4, one gyrfalcon sat on a promontory at the south end of Barrier Lake. Farther on he discovered the promontory of Pulocampas, whence the island of Hainan may be seen. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Kavala is built on a promontory stretching south into the bay, and opposite the island of Thasos. Still the noble promontory thrusts itself boldly forward into the sea from the heart of an undesecrated wilderness. There is here a good depth of water, and the harbor is divided, somewhat like that of Valletta, by a promontory or tongue of land. There must be some promontory, some outcropping of grass, behind which they could hide. He then coasted along the shore, until he came to a promontory near nabis's post. The ground plan of the house followed the outline of the promontory on which it stood. When we anchored off the promontory we were surprised to receive no signs of welcome. This rock is a promontory on the island of Leucas, upon which was a temple to Apollo. Below Yetheuil a torn and ravined promontory presses close to the sudden bend of the river. In clear weather, the plains of Hungary as far as the rez promontory may be seen from the summits of the mountains. Show More Sentences They discovered the island of Cozumel and the vast promontory of Yucatan. The name given to the first promontory to appear is significant. The Acamas is a promontory with two paps, and upon it is a large forest. A few steps onward brought me to a promontory on the shore, and revealed the brown archways of the decoy on the opposite bank. Towards four o'clock the human spirit again began to lick the body, as a flame licks a black promontory of coal. As the boat was gliding swiftly round a low promontory, thinly covered with trees, one of them gave the alarm of Indians. The word means a fishhook, and the promontory looks something like one. He then sought Pylos in the northern promontory of the mainland. Cnidus lay on the western edge of a long and narrow promontory. Took boat on the lake, from the promontory of Dindog before mentioned. Another was on the west of the promontory of Paria, and named Cape Lapa. His fleet was now off Cape Malta, the south-eastern promontory of Lesbos. They had reached Europa Point, the outermost lighthouse of the promontory. Arrived at the upper ridge of the promontory, I saw a vast white plain covered with morses. The storm was from the west, and the promontory pointed to the north. Some fifty yards lower, the river took a turn round a promontory of land, on which stood a little inn much frequented by anglers in the season. Also, a term for a headland or promontory on the coasts of chili and Peru. The sea brightened, and the circean promontory soon glowed with purple. Arrived at the upper ridge of the promontory, I saw a vast white plain covered with morses.After examining this city of morses, I began to think of returning. I had seen a distant headland past the extreme edge of the promontory, and as we looked we could see grow the intervening coastline of what was evidently a deep cove. Show More Sentences I drew rein on a little level promontory overlooking the trail below and to my left, and saw the party of pursuing savages disappearing around the point of a neighboring peak. It was this promontory, uncultivated, wet, covered with bushes and occasional trees, which had caught the fancy of Alessio Baldovinetti nearly five hundred years before. Find more words! 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